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Bargain Buddy (or Cashback) by eXact Advertising is a piece of spyware known as a browser hijacker. Normally it comes bundled with freeware programs such as LimeWire or Net2Phone as well as… Read More

When it comes to corporate data on enterprise level storage it’s important to make sure that your data is protected and available at all times, or as close to that as you… Read More

With technology expanding at an exponential rate it seems like the hardware associated with it keeps getting smaller and smaller because we can now pack more power into smaller packages. And with… Read More

Windows 2000 and higher versions allow you to adjust the local security settings for a particular computer. If the computer was part of a domain on a network then these settings would… Read More

There are many different types of file formats for movie files that you will come across. Different cameras and smartphones use different formats and there is no real consistency when it comes… Read More

There are many types of hard drives that you can use for your workstation or server computers such as IDE, SATA, SCSI, Solid State and now SAS or Serial Attached SCSI. Serial… Read More
Everyone has computer issues at some point and it’s great when you can click around your menus and open other programs to help figure out the problem. But not all problems can… Read More

If you work in the IT industry and use Windows for your servers and or workstations then you most likely know what NTFS is. NTFS (New Technology File System) was introduced by… Read More

I’m sure at some point while using your computer at work or at home you have encountered some sort of error message or crash while trying to get your work done. This… Read More
